My Life-Changing Travel Adventure to Ghana - VIDEOS AND PHOTOS

ABOUT THIS EPISODE:
I’m eager to share my experience about my first trip to Ghana.
During this episode of the Age Has No Limit podcast, I’ll share videos and pictures of my time in Ghana and end with some thoughts on my experience. One that saw me go from wondering aloud and even criticizing to being humbled.
By the second week, Ghana had grown on me.
Some of you may know about the Year of Return when Ghana’s current President invited diasporans to return to Africa. The Year of Return was 2019-four hundred years after the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Jamestown, Virginia. It was great marketing and provided a tourism boost for the country.
During my two-week stay, I spent time in Adenta, took a drive up into the hills to Peduase and beyond, enjoyed a brief tour in Mampong, enjoyed a high-rise stay in the Osu neighborhood of Accra, enjoyed a few stops in Aburi, and survived the four-hour drive on a day trip to Cape Coast. My travel partner experienced even more of the country.
Our stops included Kakum National Park, Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park and Mausoleum, W.E.B. DuBois Centre, Asenema Falls, Elmina Castle (Dungeon), and more.
Join me on this episode of the Age Has No Limit podcast as I share my life-changing trip to the west African country of Ghana.
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WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
Ghana tourism data from Statista (2019 - 2023)
About the Year of Return
About several things to do and see in the Eastern and Central Regions of Ghana
About the W.E.B. DuBois Centre
My experience at the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park and Mausoleum
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//ABOUT ME
I'm Patrice Davis, mom of three, CEO of Grants Works Consulting and Ready Set Go Consult, travel enthusiast, and culture lover. I'm happily living a redesigned life and want to encourage you to redesign yours to live life on your own terms. I created the Age Has No Limit Podcast to help more people appreciate that aging is a privilege and that we can age gracefully, and age with dignity. I want to inspire people who are in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and older to pursue the redesigned life of their dreams. Each episode is created to inspire or serve as an example of the life you can live. Each guest will share their path to a redesigned life and solo episodes will lay out ways you can do the same. You can listen to each episode here or on Apple, Google, Spotify, and iHeartRadio.

[@JC-ty3zq]

JUST ONE VIDEO YOU DID ON GHANA AND YOU GOT OVER 9,000 VIEWS!!!THE BIGGEST VIDEO ON YOUR CHANNEL SO FAR.THANKS TO GHANA.

[@amaesoun856]

Welcome, Home Sister, and God bless our homeland GHANA 🙏🙏❤️❤️🇬🇭🇬🇭

[@rosenyarko1457]

God bless our home land Ghana 🇬🇭

[@blaqLion]

Am from Montego Bay Jamaica, raised in Georgetown DC. Maryland and, Virginia... DMV area, first of all Ashanties are the tribe where able to defeated British army. They killed 3 thousand British army just one day, I started going to Ghana, 2017, I met my girlfriend who also live in Pennsylvania, we started dating for one year, got married December 2018, we have one boy and one girl, purchased 2 acres of land Aburi mountains, building 44 apartments units. I thank God I met my wife in. Ghana, long live Mama Africa and all black people around the world 🌍

[@danielforson5932]

Welcome to Ghana 🇬🇭

[@agehasnolimit]

I'm also from Jamaica and raised partially in the DMV. Yes, many Jamaicans' ancestors are Akan and other people from the region.

[@JC-ty3zq]

​@@agehasnolimitReally Jamaican!!!You behave more like a FBA!!!

[@kennyKelvins]

God bless Ghana

[@lordkwesiallen216]

Great trip , great experience !!! You have done very well , please continue to visit . God bless our home land Ghana .

[@user-ug1kc5ti2x]

I’m so proud of both of you ladies…

[@enochodai4920]

Am a Ghanaian and I must commend you for this informative video about Ghana. I must say I was thought about slavery in the Gold Coast and the African continent when we were in primary/ elementary school. What we were not thought was the slave trade that was went on and is still going on in the north-west and eastern part of Africa by the Arabs. The Arab slave trade in the Africa is as worse as the European slave trade. Much as we condemn slavery in general most of the time we only focus on the Trans Atlantic slave trade and we seems to forget that the Arabs we trading in blacks before the Whiteman came to Africa. If you go to Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt and Morocco they are still practicing selling fellow blacks there.

[@danielforson5932]

Ghana 🇬🇭, the gateway to Africa

[@beatriceowusuachaw6210]

GOD is a miracle worker Amen 😅

[@samnat277]

Thank you, however as a Ghanaian, I grew up learning about the slave trade. It’s a real shame if this has stopped but I was fully aware of our history and we took school trips to Elmira Castle

[@paakojofynn]

It was part of our history curriculum during my school days. I also personally took interest in.that part of history during my school.days

[@bigfun5658]

Ghanaians study history in the schools and most of us even went to visit Elmina .It depends on the year each one attends school, I can say that most of the schools are educated about our history but the feeling is different between those in africa and the diaspora.

[@agehasnolimit]

Thanks for clearing that up for me. Many diasporans have no idea exactly where in Africa their ancestors originated from so every piece of the puzzle helps us reconnect.

[@rebeccaadu-poku8359]

Thank you so much I just saw it now . I was looking for black American women to invest in Ghana but I was looking at wrong places looking for Oprah big names, well done good move for starting investing in Ghana . your next trip is to see Kumasi and to see Asante Ohene .my sister I love you I am in Connecticut . So will connect with you some time to come .

[@florsnipes9830]

Great job. That was enlightening.

[@isaacotoo-mensah7343]

Explore other parts of Ghana 🇬🇭

[@edwardadu-gyamfi3107]

Beautiful narration!

[@agehasnolimit]

Thank you! I appreciate it.

[@ErnestBadu]

Welcome home sister

[@agehasnolimit]

Thank you. It felt great being home in Ghana.

[@p_black3219]

You did it. I remember telling you about my Ghana visit. You did a good job of capturing the essence of Ghana. Did you go to the Last Bath River?

[@agehasnolimit]

I’m so glad I did. It was a life-changing experience.

[@p_black3219]

@@agehasnolimit looking forward to your next trip to The Continent. Many are visiting Kenya, but having 54 to choose from makes it interesting.

[@markmensah7133]

Season 2 episode 8 of the Netflix show: the queen covers Nkrumah and his relationship with the British monarchy after he help Ghana fight for Independence. You can check it. It does give accurate details on what happened

[@stephanie9463]

I will be honest, I'm 23 and I went to a private school in grade level, and history was taught about slavery and Nkrumah but it felt water down. We even did an excursion to the Cape Coast castle and Elimina but again I did not feel the travesty of the history till I later revisited it as a young adult. It could be that I was too young to comprehend it. But the feeling and understanding of the history taught when I was a child kind of felt water down and more of a study session to pass exams. There were part of Nkrumah's history that I felt were erased, it was the part of the coup, the part where his ideology became similar to a socialist with his relationship with China and his opposition party that are actually running the country till today with their children and grandchildren (example being the current president Nana Addo). Most of the infrastructures he established when he became president were not taught and are abandoned today. There was a lot more about the whole Trans-Atlantic slavery that was not properly taught and the textbook references were not Ghanaians but mostly people from abroad predominately Westerners. This was the same case for African history especially countries nearby Ghana, their traditions, and people or even how they got their independence. If you ask a regular Ghanaian how Togo or Ivory Coast got their independence and which set of people live within the country, they will not be able to tell you. It's crazy because we share the same people with Togo and Ivory Coast with the Akans and Ewe. We do not know each other even though we are not far from each other, imagine the rest of the Diaspora across the world, we definitely do not know much about their struggles and history.

[@agehasnolimit]

Thank you so much for this additional insight. I appreciate it.

[@user-ei5rn4vr1j]

⁠@@agehasnolimithis write up about opposition party to Nkrumah whose offsprings are currently ruling Ghana is a big fat lie . This lies has been going on for years and it is null and void . The people who do not like this current government had been going out peddling lies about this issue.

[@stephanie9463]

@@user-ei5rn4vr1j is it really lies? Wasn’t the Addos (current president uncle) against Nkrumah when Nkrumah wanted Ghanas independence. They tried to get the British monarch to allow Ghana to be a vassal state and Nkrumah did not like it hence why he departed from their group and founded his own party. Back to present day, the Addos own majority of companies ( oil, gas stations, etc) and projects that the government supposedly puts them in charge. Why would a president put his cousins in charge of many projects that as of now have still not seen much completed. Family business is what it is. Who do you think help overthrow Nkrumah?

[@amasare]

Surprised to hear, I was born raised in Ghana till age 19 so I most of my schooling there and I was taught this about the transatlantic slave trade even did a field trip (excursion) to the Cape Coast Castle. I'm not sure if they stopped teaching that but I believe those of us who grew up in Ghana in the late 70s, 80s and 90s were taught these things along with direct and indirect rules in the colonial area.

[@py20]

Yes, we were.

[@JamesBond-44]

I am 55 years old Ghanaian. And about the slave trade history in the books. We had the history in our books during my school time. I can even remember some of the names he mentioned during the tour at the dungeons.. Only that I am not sure if they still have it in the books. I am in the diaspora for decades.

[@agehasnolimit]

Thank you. I’m wondering if it has changed.

[@beatriceaboa9031]

I'm a 32y/o woman raised in the western region of Ghana. I was taught about the slave trade, the Anglo-Aahanti wars, the British colonization, etc to mention a few, when I was in middle school/junior high that was from 2004-2006. My niece, currently in grade (6) school is learning it & I was shocked she's learning it so early in school than in my time. I don't know where you're getting your info from but it needs to be corrected 😊

[@braabeikusymple5686]

Wow, such a awesome presentation my sister. I must say that with your glasses on you look like one of our past presidents called Kwadjo Abrifa Busia... I hope you read about him..

[@agehasnolimit]

I haven’t heard about him but I will look now! 😊

[@user-ei5rn4vr1j]

@@agehasnolimit you might be from his bloodline or his family’s bloodline

[@isaacotoo-mensah7343]

We learn it, but is not mandatory, I learnt everything he said at the university when I registered for Africa history for a semester.

[@agehasnolimit]

Ah, that might clear it up for me. So it’s offered but it isn’t mandatory in grade school?

[@user-ei5rn4vr1j]

@@agehasnolimit it is mandatory in school . Some people never took school serious so they didn’t even remember about them being thought about slavery , slave trade and ethnic groups and tribal wars . Till now they are being thought about slavery .

[@kwabenaamoako6726]

Every Ghanaian knew the history very well. We just feel ashamed talking about it,so we just pretend we don't know

[@amasare]

I don't even think it's pretense per se , Ghanaians are just people who do not hold on to the past too much especially if it's bad. They let things go. Most Africans, I'll say are that way..... This slave trade happened on all the countries along coast of west Africa but you go to most countries and there's little or nothing remaining of that history. At least Ghana preserved some stuff. I think there's a good and bad about that attitude.

[@emilymaa5344]

Pls we are been taught in school. From Junior primary n secondary school. We have history lessons in schools

[@agehasnolimit]

Thank you for your comment.

[@kwabinadunbong7381]

I am watching your trip to Ghana,at the kwame Nkrumah memorial park.your guide told you the park was built by president Jerry John rawlings.that is true.president Nkrumah was initially buried in his native ngroful in the western region of Ghana in 1972,the year he died in Bucharest,romania.so all panafracanist who visited Accra Ghana in the 70s,80s had to travel by road to ngroful to visit and lay a wreath at his graveyard.minister Louis Farrakhan visited Ghana iin the mid 80s and travelled by road to all the way to ngroful,the graveyard of Dr Nkrumah to pay his respect.when he returned to Accra,he impressed on president Jerry John Rawlings to build a befitting national memorial for Dr Nkrumah in the nations capital Accra.president Rawlings then built the memorial site that you just visited.it is the very site Nkrumah stood on in 6th march 1957 to declare the independence of Ghana..

[@agehasnolimit]

Ah! Yes, I learned he was originally buried in his home village and then his body was moved to Accra. You added yet another missing piece that it was Min. Farrakhan that convinced Jerry Rawlings to build a memorial to Dr. Nkrumah in Accra. Thank you!

[@benjaminasiedu515]

History for sometime now have been introduced in the schools since 2019 and we learnt alot about Kwame Nkrumah growing up. So I don't know what the guys are talking about.

[@py20]

Thanks for your report on Ghana. One correction: It's not true that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was not taught in Ghanaian schools. It was; certainly during my school days. What is true is that what was taught was not nearly as comprehensive as it needed to be. I (and I'm sure many others) learnt a whole lot about that horrible history and its lingering effects only after I moved to the United States and that's a terrible shame. I hope efforts are underway to change that for the current generation of students, not only in Ghana but across Africa.

[@agehasnolimit]

I completely agree. I learned (some) African history when I went to college.

[@aliemmanuel7020]

You a very smart woman and I really appreciate you video .. However History about slave trade is definitely taught in our schools , however it’s not prioritized as much as it should be. Secondly as you already know Africa would have been a great country with regards to infrastructure if Nkrumah had focused on the development of Ghana but as he rightfully said the independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa, hence he diversified and helped to help other African countries with independence. Lastly you already know about the white mans interference..

[@morrisphilip1338]

You should try research the history of Liberia, 🇱🇷 it was established by African Americans who returned from the u.s. first independent African nation

[@Misty_Blow]

Yeah you have a good experience about Africa but your Tonne seems a little bit snubbing

[@Misty_Blow]

Yeah you first said we don’t learned anything about the Nkrumah but everywhere you visit as attractions was about your Nkrumah

[@Misty_Blow]

It’s not through because children growing in the sixties we have to learn about Americans, the slave trade and Europe. It’s just recently that children are learning more about Ghana. Because everyone wanted to be like is in American films

[@Misty_Blow]

It’s not through because children growing in the sixties we have to learn about Americans, the slave trade and Europe. It’s just recently that children are learning more about Ghana. Because everyone wanted to be like is in American films Please next time learn to speak with a little bit of Respect because you sound bearrr and madam special maybe you don’t notice but we from afar. Advice from a grown man please

[@Voavicky]

You really look a Ghanaian. An Akan or Ashanti to be specific. Have you confirmed with a DNA check? AKWAABA to Ghana.🇬🇭

[@agehasnolimit]

I'm from Jamaica and many Jamaicans have Akan heritage. :) Thank you so much for your comment.

[@user-rp8zz8wu3m]

Most Ghanaians don't pay Tax but want everything so that is why any government that comes to power seeks loans from IMF period

[@agehasnolimit]

Thank you for your comment. Interesting.

[@frankkyereme7125]

IMF is Bank 🏦 nothing wrong with that, just to use the loan for profitable for the citizens,

[@BGroupsAfrica-hf1xf]

Did you ask the driver the level of his education?? The current jurudiction are actually the ones trying to distorts the education and history of Ghana. It started in 2017. Before then everybody knows the impact of Dr. NKRUMAH not only to Ghana but Africa.

[@paulasimenu1074]

Your commentary on community planning was great. Attempts have been made in the past to build these communities devoid of open sewers ,gutters etc and with side walks etc as in all modern states. Thus Tema township close to Accra was built as a model but regrettably not replicated. It is recommended you visit the iconic University of Ghana at Legon Accra your next visit and you will surely be impressed with the layout of the campus and the community at large

[@Mameli20030]

So does it mean the whole country it’s only the university has a proper drainage

[@islyrevans295]

Maya angelou wasn't a pan africanist she married out of her race

[@asaasare220]

If U think any black people any where enjoy their history please let us know …most black Americans know about their history is MLK George Washington carver very few heroes

[@kwakubonsu4602]

Children learn history during primary, secondary and tertiary education. However children learn little to nothing about African history, period. More than 90 % of history education is the history of Europe, the Middle East ie the Sumerians and Arcadians, Egypt , (the Euro version ). For a short time in the 60s, books about Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Dr Kwegyir Aggrey , the fight for independence , Nana Yaa Asantewah and a few African Kings and heroes were in primary and secondary schools. Books that were burnt and banned days after the overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah. I don’t remember learning anything significant about slavery. My African history education began with the civil rights movement. Books written by Eldridge Cleaver , the writings of Malcolm X and Dr King, prompted me to learn about slavery and in the process colonialism, the beginnings of the Atlantic Slave Trade. From the white point of view, it was important to deny literacy to slaves, (by any means necessary), and just as important to obliterate the history of Africans, to Africans everywhere.

[@agehasnolimit]

Thank you for this additional insight! So books about Dr Nkrumah were banned or burned at some point?! Wow! I’m very familiar with the way history is rewritten, erased, or watered down. I also read the writings of E Cleaver (Soul On Ice was eye opening). I also read about Malcolm X.

[@eve954]

Stop the cap

[@Misty_Blow]

That is not true and we learn it in Primary and middle school before secondary

[@kofidaniel5777]

Where on earth did you get the information that Ghanaian kids are not taught about slavery? That's ridiculous!!.. I was taught when I was in grade 4 and all through high school. I'm a parent now, and my two kids know all about slavery from school. I liked your video...but please do not spread false info!!!

[@eve954]

I wonder where she got that information from. She was so sure that she even emphasized on it. Just funny

[@kobbyjunior]

So surprised when I heard that too I was taught that in basic school

[@agehasnolimit]

Thanks for commenting. As I said in the video, I was told that by two Ghanaian tour guides and I asked you (the audience) to confirm what I learned from them. Several other commenters agree that it is taught but it is glossed over.

[@kofidaniel5777]

@@agehasnolimit "Glossed over" can be subjective. Slavery was and still is a BIG part of our history lessons. As you might have read from the comments, some schools even have class trips to the slave castles, etc. That's not "glossing over", is it ? If those tour guides said that, well, maybe they didn't school in Ghana.

[@kofidaniel5777]

@@eve954 Yep !

[@Misty_Blow]

Please not everywhere so good in USA

[@agehasnolimit]

I agree. I'm not American.